Hey, great to see you catching up to the rest of us, ABC 7. ABC did a piece on Malort history, leading with quick cuts of Chicagoans trying it for the first time.
Hey, great to see you catching up to the rest of us, ABC 7. ABC did a piece on Malort history, leading with quick cuts of Chicagoans trying it for the first time.
The 2020 Illinois Democratic primary will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, one of three states voting on the same day in the Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election.
The Illinois primary is an open primary, with the state awarding 184 delegates, of which 155 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary. Since most of us will be partaking in St. Patrick’s Day festivities, this is a perfect time to mail-in your ballot!
Need to register to vote? Go HERE.
And you can request a mail-in ballot for the upcoming primary! If you live in Chicago go HERE, burbs gotcha covered HERE.
We are all in this together. <3 Lauren
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The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and as is the case every year, there were notable snubs. Here are but a few:
Christian Bale
Balancing out the sweet racing footage in “Ford v Ferrari” was a memorable, nuanced performance from “method AF” Christian Bale.
Adam Sandler
Tell your friends in Lubbock-a, Sandler got the “snub-bocka.” Sandler’s work in “Uncut Gems” was a major leap forward in his career, one that earned him tons of critical praise. Looks like the Academy still thinks of him as “The Waterboy.”
Midsommar
Cinematography? Best Actress (Florence Pugh)? Anyone?
Female directors
Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) and Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers) are just three of the higher-profile snubs.
Jared Leto is the living vampire Morbius in the new Spider-Man universe movie. Don’t blink, or you’ll miss a glimpse of Spidey… and stick around for a moment that connects Morbius to the bigger picture.
Batman must have done such a good job that now he has to commit his own crimes to fight.
There is no doubt, based off of physic alone, that has to be the ACTUAL Batman!
He’s been going around Walker County, Alabama (known famously as the home of Batman) stealing from Churches.
That’s just ice cold.
Goes to show you that in today’s world you just can’t trust anyone.
Not even Batman.
With the terrible wildfires going on in Australia right now some animal’s food supply has been destroyed causing a mass threat to their likelihood of survival.
But there are angels that roam this earth, and they are airdropping carrots and sweet potatoes to all of the little creatures who can’t find food.
Operation Rock Wallaby 🦘- #NPWS staff today dropped thousands of kgs of food (Mostly sweet potato and carrots) for our Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby colonies across NSW 🥕🥕 #bushfires pic.twitter.com/ZBN0MSLZei
— Matt Kean MP (@Matt_KeanMP) January 11, 2020
One happy customer 🦘🥕🥕🥕🥕#operationrockwallaby #AustralianFires pic.twitter.com/wtzMgeaX6D
— Matt Kean MP (@Matt_KeanMP) January 11, 2020
There’s some awesome footage of volunteers doing the food drop here.
So sweet, makes me want to be a better person.
When the pressure is on, that is when the greats come out.
Jeopardy James, Know it Ali, Albert Einstein, all of the great trivia minds of the world know to take themselves out of the moment and use common sense.
Unfortunately for this lady, but fortunately for us, she does not have that clutch trivia gene.
HA! What a dummy!
Not everyone was made for the big trivia circuit. Maybe she can find more success in the foreign circuit.
Better luck next time, and congrats on being today’s big dumb stupid idiot face!
When you get blessed with new Tame Impala AND new Mac Miller in one week, YOU PLAY THEM! As always, contribute to the show by using the hashtag #QDUP and hit us up with your new music recommendations.
HOUR 1 | |
Tame Impala | Lost In Yesterday |
Wolf Parade | Against the Day |
Des Rocs | Used to the Darkness |
Goody Grace | Scumbag |
DMA’s | Silver |
Upsahl | Smile for the Camera |
Houses | Bad Checks |
Post Animal | Safe or Not |
Kadeema | Gotta Get It |
Girl in Red | Bad Idea |
Glass Animals | Tokyo Drifting |
Mallrat | Charlie |
Dan Luke and the Raid | Fool |
Starcrawler | No More Pennies |
Blue Stones | Shakin off the Rust |
HOUR 2 | |
Mac Miller | Good News |
Two Feet | You |
Mansionaire feat Shaed | Easier |
Grouplove | Deleter |
Finneas | Lets Fall In Love For the Night |
Phantogram | In A Spiral |
Tennis | Need Your Love |
The Districts | Hey Jo |
Taylor Janzen | What I Do |
The Darcys | Melodramatic |
Michigander | Misery |
Pinegrove | Phase |
Eliza and the Delusionals | Just Exist |
Overcoats | The Fool |
Battles | Fort Green Park |
Hour 1
Hour 2
In a video posted to Instagram, Billie Joe Armstrong says Green Day is looking to play a “backyard” gig to celebrate the release of “Father Of All…”
Now, before you get TOO excited, one of the only rules put forth so far is that the location has to be in California. BUT….after that, there are no rules. Billie says the location can be “a relatively big backyard that we can do, like, a backyard party somewhere? Maybe come play at your house, or your garage, backyard? Or do you have like a barn? Or is there a church or a church parking lot?”
I ask — if someone has a barn here in Chicago that is too good to pass up, would Green Day? If not, you can always look forward to the Hella Mega Tour.– [eric]
How is this even legal? How are they even able to put this together? Why can’t this be here in Chicago? These are all questions I was asking myself when I read on Consequence of Sound that Rage Against the Machine will play the Boston Calling festival in May along with the Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Yes, all of those bands on one festival in one weekend.
Rage is already committed to several shows this spring for their big reunion run including headlining Coachella in the wine country of California.
Does this mean we could see the seismic power of RATM will be a part of a big fest in Chicago this coming summer? Only time will tell.
The government is trying to poison us!
Well, that’s at least what it looks like with all this green stuff oozing into Lake Michigan.
Don’t worry, it’s only some environmentally safe dye that was put into the water as part of the routine maintenance at the water treatment facility.
Or that’s at least what they want you to think…
Just ignore all of those fish with 3 eyes and 7 nipples.
Trust no one, not even yourself. But most importantly; Don’t drink the lake water.
Well just for today at least.
Now be honest, put it in the box!
This is either the single best call ever made during a sporting event, or it’s the absolute worst.
There is no in between.
I’m…. im not sure how I should feel about what this announcer just said? pic.twitter.com/gfvfYVKwme
— Ross Homan (@Ross_homan1) January 9, 2020
I mean, bringing up your dead dog being run over is an aggressive move, some would even say unneeded.
However, saying “ran over like that,” is the greatest comeback in the history of sports.
So when you look at the whole picture these announcers are coming out batting .500.
Mystery solved, good job team.
Well, watch out Uber and Lyft, the flying taxi is coming. In North Carolina this week a crowd of about 100 people including the state’s governor, watch the first North American flight of the eHanmg 216, a newly developed autonomous flying vehicle. It basically looks like a really big drone that could seat two people.
UPI reported that no people actually took the short flight on a test track as Federal Aviation Administration rules currently do not allow autonomous aircraft to carry people.
Imagine the possibilities? Pulling up an app on your phone, ordering a flight in this, and being whisked away above car traffic. Don’t expect it to be cheap or be available any time soon.
One of the best things about living here, is our incredible museums, planetarium and world famous aquarium. Even better when Illinois residents can enjoy free days, here are the days where your entry will be free with proof of residency (and if you reserve your tickets online there is a $3 fee.)
January:
16-20 with hours extended until 9 p.m. Jan. 20.
ALL OF FEBRUARY!
Monday-Friday with hours extended until 9 p.m. Feb. 17.
June:
16-16 and 22-23 with hours extended until 7 p.m. on free days.
August:
24-25 with hours extended until 7 p.m. on free days.
September:
8-9, 14-16, 21-23 and 28-30. Some days will have extended hours, with more information available online.
October:
5-7 with hours extended until 9 p.m. on Oct. 6.
More info from Shedd Aquarium HERE.
<3 Lauren
Birds of Prey hits theaters next month, featuring Margot Robbie returning to the role of Harley Quinn. The new trailer dropped today:
A brawl broke out during a Venezuela baseball league game yesterday, and it is outrageous!
Insólito. pic.twitter.com/Y5OWQwEtgr
— Daniel Álvarez Montes (@DanielAlvarezEE) January 9, 2020
This is just plain crazy!
The batter needs to be ejected from all baseball after that hit.
Is this like, a crime?
Assault!
There is no doubt among everybody that Lizzo is one of the most talented and entertaining people out there.
In fact, her size is really second to the awesome music she makes, and her fun and bubbly persona.
Jillian Michaels, however, can’t seem to get past the fact that people are celebrating Lizzo’s confidence in her own body.
.@JillianMichaels on Lizzo: “Why are we celebrating her body? Why does it matter? Why aren’t we celebrating her music? ‘Cause it isn’t gonna be awesome if she gets diabetes.” pic.twitter.com/FkKBd8J87b
— AM2DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM) January 8, 2020
Ok, Jillian, I’m sure you know everything about type 2 diabetes because you were a trainer on TV for a while.
Don’t you come after my girl Lizzo like that!